What is recorded here

Murthly Castle is a prehistoric standing stone in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, still marked on the national record although a much larger mansion once rose beside it. The castle outlived that mansion, receiving some of its carved rooms after a fire and continuing to stand while the grander house was blown apart in 1949. Its stones may have watched estates change, rivalries flare and memory shift from one building to another.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Murthly Castle as Standing Stone (prehistoric). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Murthly Castle is actually a medieval tower house, not a prehistoric standing stone, built by the Murray family in the 14th century. It is important as a well-preserved example of a Scottish feudal stronghold and was historically associated with the Earls of Atholl.

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